Attempting Free Enterprise: Thief
Imagine what being in prison for a decade takes away from a person Start with the immediate things such as time, opport...
REEL VALUES
A FRESH LOOK AT FILM, TELEVISION, AND EMERGING PLATFORMS
Crime
Rejecting the Anti-Social Experience: Collateral
“What makes this __ not like any other” It’s the fundamental question that must be answered in order to justify t...
Managing Relationships: Heat
Action cinema has long been a genre that glorified strong and silent heroes Classical stoics who work through their inn...
Walking the Righteous Path: The Equalizer Series
“What do you see when you look at me” This question is on the surface of Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer films ...
Hypocrisy Exists Within Your Minority Report
There have been plenty of think-pieces written on the 2002 soon-to-be-classic Minority Report, directed by Steven Spiel...
The Irishman
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to, but dammit we’re gonna try!” seems to have been on the mind on most fi...
Who is Responsible for Joker
Action and reaction make for great storytelling When the audience can trace the reason somebody does something followed...
When Feminism Becomes Nihilism: Birds of Prey
Since 2013, Warner Brothers and DC comics have been desperately trying to replicate Disney and Marvel’s model of succ...
Enduring an Upset Establishment: The Dark Knight Trilogy
The cinematic legacy of Batman can be summarized by this exchange in 2008’s The Dark Knight The Batman mythos is as e...